PAGADIAN CITY (Mindanao Examiner / July 14, 2012) – Security forces killed a notorious bandit leader wanted for a string of murders in the southern Philippines, officials said on Saturday.
Officials said army soldiers and policemen killed Amie Andi and one of his followers in a clash Friday afternoon in the village of Mikulabo in Lanao del Sur’s Picong town.
“Troops tracked down Andi’s hideout and there was an attempt to arrest him, but the gunmen opened fire on the soldiers and policemen and a gun battle ensued and in the end Amie Andi and one of his followers was killed,” Army Captain Albert Caber, a spokesman for the 1st Infantry Division, told the Mindanao Examiner.
Caber said troops also recovered an anti-tank rocket launcher and two automatic rifles from the slain bandits. He said Andi was implicated in numerous kidnappings for ransom in the provinces.
He said Andie was behind the killings of 6 people, three of them children, in an attack on a village in February in the town of Lapuyan in Zamboanga del Sur province. At least 7 children were also wounded in the attack after Andi’s group lobbed grenades and opened fire on civilians as they flee from the raid.
Security forces also killed Andie’s brother Ibrahim in a fire fight earlier this year in Lapuyan town. (Mindanao Examiner)
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